UK to strip IS runaway of citizenship

By Sam Blewett and Lizzie Roberts
Updated February 20 2019 - 7:26am, first published 7:23am
Shamima Begum has been stripped of her UK citizenship.
Shamima Begum has been stripped of her UK citizenship.

Shamima Begum, who fled the UK to join the Islamic State terror group in Syria aged 15, has been stripped of her British citizenship, her family have been told.

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